WHITE PAPER:
Aging and inflexible middleware can be hindering your organization in more ways than one, especially when it comes to change management. In this white paper, learn the key characteristics of a modern middleware platform and discover how you can benefit by migrating from a legacy middleware infrastructure to a more flexible, modular environment.

EGUIDE:
This expert e-guide explores the benefits of middleware integration and why they've become so popular for today's IT environments. Also, get an in-depth look at three real-life SOA integration projects and how they succeed in connecting applications and processes.

WHITE PAPER:
U.S. Gas & Electric knew they needed to modernize their IT system to grow the business and enter new markets - so how did they do it? Check out this brief case study to learn how USG&E integrated a new application development and management platform with existing applications and legacy systems.

EGUIDE:
This expert E-guide disusses predictions, and what your should prepare for in the world of BPM. It explains a new emphasis on business process as a service. BPM cloud is only just beginning, but it's something that will continue to catch on. Read on to find out what else to expect with your business.

WHITE PAPER:
In this resource, discover how a DevOps approach to continuous software delivery enables you to seize market opportunities and reduce time to customer feedback, resulting in higher quality software for your business and stakeholders.

EGUIDE:
This handbook will offer information on new cloud-based mobile services and provide guidance on architecting the cloud for mobile device management (MDM), location-based services and security requirements. We will also address managing the network to minimize problems in application performance and delivery.

EBOOK:
In this comprehensive e-book, explore the ways in which IBM's CICS server offers support for SOA strategies and seamlessly connects with other IT environments. With this information, you can select, plan, and design strategies that integrate CICS applications as service providers and requesters.

EGUIDE:
More manufacturers are considering cloud application to supplement their on-premise ERP systems, but because of a variety of cloud integration challenges, you might wonder how viable cloud ERP integration really is. Access this expert e-guide to learn how to address integration challenges and minimize risk in ERP cloud integrations.

EGUIDE:
An ERP migration or upgrade may be the perfect time to focus on improving key business processes - whether it means fine-tuning or an entire overhaul. In this e-guide, explore how to take advantage of this opportunity to improve business and IT alignment, edge out competitors, leverage cost-saving technology, and more.

EBOOK:
Delivering the application performance users and the business demands is key today. Discover ways to effectively monitor and troubleshoot application performance issues by gaining a comprehensive understanding of the basics.

EGUIDE:
There are a number of factors that come into play when constructing an organization's supply chain integration strategy. This E-guide offers information about how companies can utilize a hybrid approach to supply chain integration, melding in-house SCM techniques with outside manufacturing IT systems.

WEBCAST:
To enable business innovation and collaboration, you need a way to enhance your existing ERP systems. In this webcast, learn how Smart Process apps give you ERP agility, what you need to create them, and how a business operations platform can serve as a foundation for these Smart Process apps.

WEBCAST:
In this webcast, discover how Smart Process apps - designed to support variable, people-intensive, frequently-changing applications - can optimize collaborative business processes in your organization and deliver more value from your existing operations apps.

WHITE PAPER:
Access this resource to learn about a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering that massively reduces the cost and disruption of change in your IT environment. Read on to learn how this technology provides the link between business operations and IT, so that systems are completely under control and you experience minimal risk.

VIDEO:
In today's marketplace, businesses need to enhance collaboration between business and IT - otherwise, misalignment can cause bottlenecks, inefficiency, poor use of resources. Watch this video to learn about a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering that improves IT-business collaboration for developing process-centric applications and services.

CASE STUDY:
Explore this case study to realize how one organization deployed a private cloud infrastructure specifically designed to provide dedicated, secure, virtualized hosting. Realize how they were able to reduce physical servers by 65 % with this advance virtualization strategy.

WHITE PAPER:
Check out this informative resource for key deployment criteria of open source software and learn how you can leverage open source software for a variety of integration projects, including data center integration, SOA initiatives, and middleware strategies.

WHITE PAPER:
This white paper presents a technology overview of IBM Worklight and further discusses the four main components: Development tools; Runtime server environment; Security and authentication mechanisms; System requirements.

EGUIDE:
There are many areas to consider when choosing third-party applications to support your enterprise software. This expert e-guide explores why considering IT impact and user experience are critical when evaluating third-party add-ons for SAP workflow, and offers seven key questions to ask when considering SAP add-ons.

WHITE PAPER:
In today's tech environment, your enterprise systems are seeing higher levels of traffic and more usage spikes due to the proliferation of mobile devices. In this white paper, learn how you can scale your business-critical applications and systems, while maintaining high performance to keep customers satisfied.

SOA DEFINITION (continued): implementation of customized data access layers and support for disconnected programming models. SDO organizes data as graphs containing units called objects that can be easily updated, allowing constant and reliable access to data from all sources.SDO began as a joint collaboration between IBM (International Business Machines) and BEA Systems, Inc. and was published officially as a specification in November 2004. Later, SDO was included as part of the SCA (service-component architecture). SDO is evolving as an increasing number of key industry players contribute to the development of new versions. SOA definition sponsored by SearchSOA.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary

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